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Harold Cramer Smith collection, Mss 5318, Oregon Historical Society Research Library.
The full 1976 typescript of Fannie Adams Copper's "My Life as a Homesteader," with genealogical information, is held in the book collection of the Oregon Historical Society Research Library, call number 92 C785.
Seven pen and ink illustrations by Harold Cramer Smith, drawn to accompany the text of Fannie Adams Copper's "My Life as a Homesteader" in Oregon Historical Quarterly in 1981. The illustrations depict: two people looking at a catch of sturgeon and salmon; horses pulling a log; a man with a carriage outside Club Stables; a wagon axle and wheel, with arrows pointing to the linchpin; cougars in silhouette, looking down at a house below; a man on horseback, roping a deer; and a house with trees and a road or creek in front.
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The illustrations were published with "My Life as a Homesteader" by Fannie Adams Copper, edited by Leonard A. Whitlow and Catherine Copper Whitlow, in Oregon Historical Quarterly, Volume 82, Number 1 (Spring 1981), pages 65-84, and Volume 82, Number 2 (Summer 1981), pages 152-168.